Getting Your Priorities Straight

Is it more important to be true to your inner geek, or spend wisely?  With all the buzz going around about the new iPhone rumored to release this summer, I find myself in a dilemma.  I've been good with buying a new cell phone every 2 years.  This method has worked for me in the sense that it both fulfilled my geeky needs, but also didn't kill my bank account.  There was only 1 year that I broke my pattern, and that was when the first iPhone came out.  I had just bought the Nokia Communicator 3 months prior to the iPhone announcement.  At first I avoided hearing anything about the iPhone, but as soon as I saw a demo online, I was done.  Something like that, I had to be an early adopter.  It's just in my blood. 

So now, with all that the 4th generation iPhone is rumored to be, I find myself stuck.  I bought the iPhone 3Gs last summer, and now a new phone could be coming out a year earlier than I wanted it to.  I won't be eligible for any subsidized discounts like I was for the 3Gs, so I might have to drop $500+ to get the new phone.  I guess we'll see this summer.

Update on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 7:05PM by Desirea

I know, it's been forever and a day since I posted, but I've been super busy.  As a follow-up to this, you will be happy to know (or maybe you won't - who really cares anyway?) that I managed to hold out and not buy the iPhone 4.  I'm definitely buying the iPhone 5 this summer though.  And I'll probably stick with AT&T even though the network is crap, and rarely works in the city.  I've resorted to turning 3G off during the day just so I have a functioning phone.